Word Meanings - LOADSTARLODESTAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure. Chaucer. " Your eyes are lodestars." Shak. The pilot can no loadstar see. Spenser.

• PILOTFLAG
  The flag hoisted at the fore by a vessel desiring a pilot, in the United States the union jack, in Great Britain the British union jack with a white border.
• PILOTISMPILOTRY
  Pilotage; skill in the duties of a pilot. [R.]
• PILOTLAMPPILOTLIGHT
  A small incandescent telltale lamp on a dynamo or battery circuit to show approximately by its brightness the voltage of the current.
• PILOTVALVE
  A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand.
• Loadstar
  Alt. of Lodestar
• PILOTWHEEL
  A wheel, usually with radial handles projecting from the rim, for traversing the saddle of a machine tool, esp. an automatic machine tool, by hand.
• Piloting
  of Pilot
• Pilotage
  The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels.

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